Nov 23, 2011 | Cards, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Stampin' Up! Events |
I don’t think I ever shared the cards we made at the Birmingham Regional. So here they are today. They use the stamp set You Are Loved from the Holiday Mini Catalog. It’s way in the back of the mini and is more suited to Valentine’s Day so you may over look it back there – but it would be pretty for many other things. We also used the Distressing Kit with it and I really like how they turned out – gives it an aged look.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.
Nov 17, 2011 | Big Shot, Demonstrator, Fabric, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
Well I am away from my blog for a day or so and things have changed. I guess everything changes all the time and while I would like to say can you me some warning – the truth is they probably did and I didn’t pay attention to it. The first thing I noticed was a change in adding my pictures to my blog post. I wonder what else has changed – I guess I’ll find it as a I find it.
And now for the cutest little bears ever…..these are the teeniest little fabric bears.
I saw these on Patty Bennett’s blog – you can see her post and the instructions HERE. I wanted a fabric project for my last downline meeting and when I Patty shared these I knew they would perfect. These are teeny tiny little bears and we used the Spice Cake fabric to make the. This is a Big Shot project – using the Scallop Circle dies – the large, medium and small scallop circles were all used.
I got a picture of the three different fabrics in the Spice Cake assortment – I made one and the others were made by some of the girls at my downline meeting. These were assembled using hot glue but they are tiny enough that I think hand sewing them together would have been almost just as easy. I may try to make another one and just stitch the pieces together.
I am trying to finish up a tutorial for my Thanksgiving Turkey box so if you are looking for an idea for next week hold one for another day or so and I’ll have it out here for you.
Have a nice fall day! We had storms yesterday with tornado sirens (no tornado though) and the power kept going off (didn’t stay off long) and we have lots of wind today so there are leaves everywhere – falling leaves is why we call it fall.
Nov 11, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
I wanted to share a few tips on using the Glimmer Paper with the Northern Frost Decorative Strip Die for the Big Shot. The glimmer paper is a little different because it actually has a layer of plastic on the back which causes some problems with cutting detailed designs such as the snowflakes in the Northern Frost Decorative Strip Die. But the silver glimmer paper (and the red too) make such pretty snowflakes I really wanted to cut them easily so I played around with some different combinations until I found one that worked for me.
First one of the things that I have done with some of my sizzlits especially these strips that have lots of little details is I covered them with clear packing tape. So they look like this –
Can you see the tape on my die? Just put a piece of clear packing tape across the die and then cut like normal – the slick tape helps the little bits pop out of the holes instead of getting stuck in them. But that wasn’t the real problem with the glimmer paper. The real problem was getting a good cut through the plastic backing. So this is the sandwich that I found works the best for me and it was cutting the snowflakes through every time – even though it doesn’t look like it does initially.
So start on the bottom with the Decorative Strip Spacer Platform, next add the Decorative Strip Cutting Pad, then the Northern Frost Strip die (cutting blades face up), the glimmer paper (glimmer face up), then a piece of plain paper, then on top the second Decorative Strip Cutting Pad. Run this through the Big Shot to cut the snowflakes. When you get it out it will look like it didn’t cut when you see the glitter side of the paper but turn it over and look on the back and it looks like this –
Now push out the cut snowflake and then poke out all the little details with a paper piercer. I poke from the back since you can’t see them on the front.
And once you have all the little details poked through, pull them off and here it the pretty little snowflake that you get –
And here is a project I made with the glimmer snowflake – 
A glass ornament. Inside the bottom are the Mica Flakes. The glimmer snowflake is hanging on the inside (two glued back to back). And ribbon on the top. Use a strip of card stock glued in a ring to make a base to set the ornament in. It’s very pretty in person.
You’ll find the Silver Glimmer paper and the Mica Flakes in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog. You can order them on my website or send me an email.
We will be making these today in my gift making class.
Have a glimmery day!
Nov 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, uStamp |
For the last two months my Stamper’s Club girls have been working on their Advent Shadowbox Calendars. I took these pictures while they were working on the different parts. My original post for this project is HERE. I created this project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends – I Heart the Holidays class.
I took pictures of all the girls working on their boxes. I had everything divided between two tables and half the group worked at each table. They started at the October Club meeting and then finished at the November Club meeting. Now I need to have them bring them in December so I can take pictures of their finished boxes.
It was a lot of work but I think everyone was very happy with the end result. I still have one more to finish that I’m giving to someone special. I didn’t have time to work on mine during the club meetings so I better get a move on.
Have a nice day – thanks for stopping by!
Nov 9, 2011 | Decor Elements, Holiday Gift Making, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
I haven’t used any of the Decor Elements pieces in a while and when Wendy sent these to me to create a project for my downline meeting I had to get creative with a quick idea. I headed to the store to see if I could find a frame or mirror to add the Happy Holidays Decor Elements label from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog to. I didn’t have any luck finding anything that would fit – the piece is 12-1/2″ wide and 6″ tall. So I walked around the store trying to come up with other ideas. First stop was the craft aisle and a stroll through the painting section where I came across some stretched canvas. At first I only saw large pieces or small ones but then looking on the lower shelves I finally found a rectangle canvas – it measured 7″ x 14″ – yeah! These were the perfect size. I put them in the cart, headed to check out and back home to quickly put something together.
I added some ribbon, snowflakes, buttons, stitched felt, bakers twine and jingle bells and look what they become –
The end result was a nice piece of holiday decor to display in your home for the holidays. The Happy Holidays Decor Elements is a two piece vinyl image but I only used the Real Red over lay and not the White oval since my canvas was already white. Because the canvas is stretched over a frame and has no support in the center I did place some of my Big Shot dies underneath the open space to create a hard surface that I needed to apply the vinyl piece to the canvas. Then it was just a matter of decorating.
I used the 1-1/4″ Striped Grosgrain Ribbon – Wild Wasabi; I punched a snowflake from Shimmery White card stock with the Snowflake punch; the buttons are from the Holiday Berry Bouquet Designer Button collection – and they are tied on with Whisper White Baker’s Twine around the knot of the ribbon with the snowflake tucked behind it. On some of them I added Winter Wishes Stitched Felt piece – the little holly leaves and berries. And on some I tied the Mini Jingle Bells on the ends of the bakers twine.
This would also be a nice gift for the holidays. Enjoy!
Nov 7, 2011 | Big Shot, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Punch Art, Thanksgiving, uStamp, Valentine's Day |
I designed this fun project for the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 online class.
This is a Holiday Treat Making Kit. I used the Gift Givers stamp set from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog for this project. It is one of my favorites! The picture shows the box and then a sample of each of the six Holiday treats that you would make. My idea for this project was to have a ready to go kit full of everything you would need to put together treats for each holiday – except the candy. So once you have your kit created you just sit back and wait for the holidays to arrive – go buy your candy – fill the bag – assemble and give out the treats.
My box is designed to hold enough for 10 of each of the 6 holidays – so there are sections for the large fold over tags, the skinny cello bags, and then the tags, ribbon and brads for each of the holidays. I think it is fun and now I can be ready to mail off treats to my kids, and my nieces and nephews.
There is a complete tutorial for this project in the UStamp with Dawn & Friends Knock Out Punches 2011 class. Click on image below if you would like to join the class. You will go to the main site for the UStamp classes. This one is all about punches and there are over 45 projects with full tutorials – new projects are being posted every day.
I hope to see you there. This is the first of my two projects and let metell you the other one is super duper cute!!!
Have a great day!
